Sr. Hardware FA Technician - Ursus, Inc.

JOB TITLE: Sr. Hardware FA Technician
LOCATION: Onsite in Oakland, CA
DURATION: 4 months
PAY RANGE: $48-58/hour
TOP 3 SKILLS:

• 5+ years experience in consumer electronics within a quality engineering or technician role
• Thorough understanding of how to identify and root cause common mechanical and electrical failures in consumer electronics
• Strong organizational skills and excited to work through complex issues that may not have an established process

Company:
Our client, a cutting-edge fintech organization using blockchain technology to democratize the global economy is currently recruiting for a Sr. Hardware FA Technician to bring onto the team.

Duties:

• Perform hands-on triage to reproduce reported issues on all field returns and coordinate further FA with relevant engineering team
• Share FA findings with cross functional teams to drive containment and corrective action implementation into production, design, firmware
• Coordinate and execute Failure Analysis test plans for special capture FA projects and EFFA programs
• Document detailed FA steps and findings identifying root cause
• Seek alignment with cross-functional team and prioritize based on severity, incidence, and impact of each failure mode
• Provide feedback in issue reviews to determine next steps and ensure product performance, manufacturing and design issues are identified and risks mitigated
• Summarize warranty trends and findings in regular reports for cross-functional distribution as part of overall objective of implementing learnings from previous field issues into the next gen design

Skills:

• 5+ years experience in consumer electronics within a quality engineering or technician role
• Thorough understanding of how to identify and root cause common mechanical and electrical failures in consumer electronics
• Strong organizational skills and excited to work through complex issues that may not have an established process
• Comfort handling sensitive electronic components
• Strong desire to establish good working relationships within cross-functional teams
• Views every failure as an opportunity to enhance our products
• Experience using hardware lab equipment (optical microscope, multimeter, etc)

[Bonus]

• Familiarity with Snowflake, Jira, Looker, Solidworks, Altium
• Can read electrical schematics

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